How to open .jpg files

[cenres]

I've used autoit to automate several tasks. My latest involves resizing and saving continuous sets of pictures. Each set has 6 pictures that need to be resized to 20% of the original size. The six pictures are always named board.jpg, front2.jpg, front.jpg, inside.jpg, main.jpg, and rear.jpg. As it stands I depend on using mouse clicks to do a lot of my work. It's not reliable since the size of the window that houses the pictures could change from day to day. I'd like to be able to open the .JPG files using the path or possibley opening Microsoft Photo Editor and coding control keys to open the various pictures for resizing. It would be cleaner if I could just open the pic straight from the file like I do when I mouse click on it. Is there an easy solution for this? I don't want to waste a lot of time on this, so if it's not simple then I probably wont do it. It just wouldn't be worth the time. I'm not a programmer either, so to get someting to work takes me a lot longer to then some of you guys If there are any other improvements that anyone sees to make it run better, please let me know. As it sits, it runs pretty good if the window size is ok.

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Opt("MouseCoordMode", 0)

;arrange icons by name
send ("!V")
send ("I")
send ("N")
sleep (300)

;resize board.JPG
mouseclick ("left", 270, 170, 1, 3)
mouseclick ("left", 270, 170, 1, 3)
sleep (1500)
send ("!I")
send ("i")
Send ("{DEL 3}")
send ("20")
send ("{Enter}")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("A")
sleep (300)
Send ("{DEL 20}")
send ("boardsm.JPG")
send ("!S")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("X")
sleep (800)

;resize front2.JPG
mouseclick ("left", 400, 170, 1, 3)
mouseclick ("left", 400, 170, 1, 3)
sleep (1500)
send ("!I")
send ("i")
Send ("{DEL 3}")
send ("20")
send ("{Enter}")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("A")
sleep (300)
Send ("{DEL 20}")
send ("front2sm.JPG")
send ("!S")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("X")
sleep (800)

;resize front.JPG
mouseclick ("left", 520, 170, 1, 3)
mouseclick ("left", 520, 170, 1, 3)
sleep (1500)
send ("!I")
send ("i")
Send ("{DEL 3}")
send ("20")
send ("{Enter}")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("A")
sleep (300)
Send ("{DEL 20}")
send ("frontsm.JPG")
send ("!S")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("X")
sleep (800)

;resize inside.JPG
mouseclick ("left", 650, 170, 1, 3)
mouseclick ("left", 650, 170, 1, 3)
sleep (1500)
send ("!I")
send ("i")
Send ("{DEL 3}")
send ("20")
send ("{Enter}")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("A")
sleep (300)
Send ("{DEL 20}")
send ("insidesm.JPG")
send ("!S")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("X")
sleep (800)

;resize main.JPG
mouseclick ("left", 270, 300, 1, 3)
mouseclick ("left", 270, 300, 1, 3)
sleep (1500)
send ("!I")
send ("i")
Send ("{DEL 3}")
send ("20")
send ("{Enter}")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("A")
sleep (300)
Send ("{DEL 20}")
send ("mainsm.JPG")
send ("!S")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("X")
sleep (800)

;resize rear.JPG
mouseclick ("left", 400, 300, 1, 3)
mouseclick ("left", 400, 300, 1, 3)
sleep (1500)
send ("!I")
send ("i")
Send ("{DEL 3}")
send ("20")
send ("{Enter}")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("A")
sleep (300)
Send ("{DEL 20}")
send ("rearsm.JPG")
send ("!S")
sleep (300)
send ("!F")
send ("X")
sleep (800)

;arrange icons by name
send ("!V")
send ("I")
send ("N")

;prepare copy
mouseclickdrag ("left", 719, 467, 274, 162)
send ("!E")
send ("C")

[Ted at Miles]

Why not use a free program, like Adobe Photoshop that comes with Epson scanners? It has a BATCH SAVE function. You can pick up a folder, and re-save its contents, rename names with a numbering system and pick the file size and density. Real easy.

I have used mouseclicks a few times and ran into trouble, I would recommend using some sort of file path command instead.

Good luck. I love seeing posts like this. People that are really into it and obviously learning.

[BigDod]

Download Irfanview from www.irfanview.com. It has lots of command line options that will let you do what you want and is free.

Edit - My 2000'th post.

Edited September 28, 2006 by BigDod